I have an american passport
With stamps from cuba, russia, china, india, pakistan and iran...... the looks on the passport monkeys face when he leafs through is priceless.

Mind you, I do walk funny for a couple days afterwards, and the black vans that follow me everywhere are a bit annoying.

I do genuinely have these stamps in my american passport, I go out of my way to take it out and get it stamped, even when I'm travelling on my british passport. My last trip back to the states was great bar the two hours they kept me in the airport and questioned me over my travel details for the past three years (all business).

The bit that makes this all worthwhile was sitting down and listening to the 'interrogators' asking me the same damn question over and over again. I was seriously tempted to start 'pleading the fifth' at them and see what would happen, but my british upbringing meant that I just continued to suffer through the complete crap display of Gestapo-esque mind games.

Even got told to be more 'careful' in my travelling in the future.

Twat.

(inspired by CaptainCuntyBollocks below)
(UncleChuckles "Cthulhu fhtagn", Tue 3 Jun 2008, 17:14, 5 replies)

Cuban visa
Americans are banned from travelling to Cuba. I thought you could be arrested if you had a Cuban visa in an American passport. Having one in a British passport is OK. I've entered the States with a Cuban visa in a British passport and nobody batted an eyelid (although I was still asked questions by the immigration for unrelated matters).
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 3 Jun 2008, 19:12, closed)

^ Isn't it the case
that you're not permitted to fly from the USA to Cuba? But you can fly from Canada instead, even if you're American.

I may be wrong though.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 3 Jun 2008, 20:07, closed)

^ ^
You can get away with it if you hide all evidence that you visited Cuba. Get in from a non-US country and ask the Cuban passport people to stamp a slip of paper instead of your passport (at least that's how I think it works).
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 3 Jun 2008, 20:11, closed)

Apparently,
most of the "pariah" nations are quite understanding about passport stamps.

At one time, you couldn't get into a lot of countries if you had an Israeli stamp, and they did the "stamp the piece of paper" routine.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 3 Jun 2008, 20:22, closed)

It's not illegal
But they really don't like to see it in your passport. Don't know why, Cuba is a really nice place (bar the poverty from all the trade sanctions) and very friendly.

I didn't fly from the US to Cuba though, went from London to Toronto (can't remember exactly, many moons and doobies ago) then on to Cuba. Went as a family, me and my mum insisted that we get our American passports stamped ('cos we like to cause trouble like that), but my dad and brother wussed out and got their British ones stamped.
(UncleChuckles "Cthulhu fhtagn", Thu 5 Jun 2008, 9:05, closed)